This author wrote a work about a battle on the title river, Valerik. One work by this author featured a fistfight between both of the protagonists that kills an oprichnik; that work was adapted into Anton Rubinstein's The Merchant Kalashnikov. Another work by this author treats its subject as a seductress living in a tower "in the deep ravine of the Daryal." That subject, in fact a medieval Queen of Georgia, shares the name of a character in another of this man's poems, in which she begs her father to allow her to become a nun after her bridegroom dies, and the title c
This author wrote a work about a battle on the title river, Valerik. One work by this author featured a fistfight between both of the protagonists that kills an oprichnik; that work was adapted into Anton Rubinstein's The Merchant Kalashnikov. Another work by this author treats its subject as a seductress living in a tower "in the deep ravine of the Daryal." That subject, in fact a medieval Queen of Georgia, shares the name of a character in another of this man's poems, in which she begs her father to allow her to become a nun after her bridegroom dies, and the title character eventually kills Tamara with his kiss. In addition to writing The Demon, he also wrote a novel in which the title character pursues Kazbich, who later kills his lover Bela, refuses to marry Princess Mary, and duels Grushnitsky. For 10 points, name this author of a novel about the superfluous man Pechorin, A Hero of Our Time.
This author wrote a work about a battle on the title river, Valerik.
Mikhail {Lermontov}